JOHN THOMSON and MILTON MILLER

Chinese views and portraits, 1860s-70s

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JOHN THOMSON and MILTON MILLER
Chinese views and portraits, 1860s-70s
Ten albumen prints, one 5½ x 11.1/8 in., the remainder approx. 9¼ x 11¼ in. or the reverse, six signed J. Thomson in the negatives, mounted on card, nine titled in pencil on verso, three matted. (10)
Literature
White, John Thomson Life and Photographs, pl. nos. 63, 70, 71; Worswick, Imperial China, p. 79 (illus.); Goodrich and Cameron, The Face of China, p. 69 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Subjects include a Canton street scene, a group portrait of men drying tea, an interior view of the temple of Five Hundred Gods, Buddhist priests playing chess, an image of three men sitting on the steps at a temple gate (illus.); two river views, a village scene and an official on a visit to Canton by Miller.

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